Blacksmithing

How to make a steel black waxed heart.

Today the anvils are so cold I’m having to work much quicker and heat up the bar more frequently as the

The first 2 hours of making a half penny snub end scroll

Avoid flying swirls of soot and sparks in your eyes and ignore horizontal rain.

These are the lessons I’ve learnt after a further three hours in the forge.

I had my first blacksmithing lesson last week in the forge at Surrey Quay’s farm on the bank of the Thames